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Ch15 New Deal
Question | Answer |
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The first major action Roosevelt took as president was to close all the nation's ______ and order inspections. | banks |
Did Roosevelt's idea for reorganizing the Supreme Court become a law? | No |
A goal of the New Deal was to regulate the ______market. | stock |
This legislation provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses and aided people with disabilities, poor mothers, with dependent children, and the needy elderly. | Social Security Act |
Created by the Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933, this originally protected up to $5,000 of an individual's bank account, but today insures up to $250,000. | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
This put hundreds of thousands of young, single men to work building raods, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil-erosion and flood control projects | Civilian Conservation Corps |
This was created to reform and to restore confidence in the stock market by providing a way to monitor the market & enfore laws regarding the sale of stocks and bonds | Securities and Exchange Commission |
This rebuilt dams and provided hydroelectric power to an impoverished region | Tennessee Valley Authority |
This addressed the problems of unemployment and poverty by creating jobs that ranged from construction of airports and libraries to the sewing of clothing for the needy | Works Progress Administration |
This legislation protected the rights of workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board to settle disputes between employers and employees | Wagner Act |